The SCCDA’s office is using music to bring awareness to domestic violence
The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office is using the power of music during National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This Friday afternoon, Assistant District Attorney James Gibbons-Shapiro...
View ArticlePetaluma PD Taking New Reports of Phone Scams
PETALUMA – The Petaluma Police Department (PPD) has issued an advisory to the public about a recent flurry of phone scams. In the last few days the PPD took reports for a variety of telephone based con...
View ArticlePolice Raid Davis Trailer Park, Seize Weapons and Narcotics
Officers with a task force comprising multiple local agencies raided and searched a trailer in the Royal Oak trailer park in South Davis on September 24. Officers from the Yolo Narcotics Enforcement...
View ArticleHome Invader Caught in Act
Ventura - There are few crime events more terrifying to its victims than a home invasion, wherein the occupants of a home are awakened in the dead of night by the sound of someone unknown in the next...
View ArticleSuspected Bank Robber Chased, Crashes, Caught in Rialto
RIALTO – A bank robbery suspect, wanted in connection with another theft, was chased down on a high speed pursuit by law enforcement officers before he crashed just off the 215-freeway Thursday...
View ArticleCostly Consequences For Woodland Man Convicted of Stealing A Few Hundred Dollars
Generally a string of small business robberies is referred to as a “spree.” But the prosecutor in the case of Salvador Jimenez, 47, of Woodland, raised the rhetorical ante in stating, “This man was a...
View ArticleCops Stop Chop Shop
On Tuesday morning, police shut down an illegal chop shop in Oakland and arrested two men on charges of auto theft, running an illegal chop shop and probation violation, according to a news release...
View ArticleUCSB Professor Busted for False Imprisonment
Santa Barbara - As if the UCSB administration didn’t have enough problems dealing with the recent public relations fallout following the April Deltopia Riots and the May 23, 2014 “Isla Vista Killings”...
View ArticleFourth Suspect Arrested in Silver Dollar Homicide
BAKERSFIELD — A step-father accused of conspiring to murder his adopted son earlier this year, was arrested on Wednesday. George Dean was booked into the Kern County Jail on charges of murder,...
View ArticleFour Teens Arrested for Killing 920 Foster Farms Chickens
FRESNO COUNTY – Authorities believe that four teenagers are responsible for the bludgeoning deaths of 920 chickens with a golf club at a Foster Farms facility in Fresno County last week. The Fresno...
View ArticleDomestic Violence arrest in Fort Bragg
FORT BRAGG – MENDOCINO COUNTY – October has been named Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and was designated so by the US Congress in 1989. And in an unfortunate coincidence, the National Football...
View ArticleMendocino burglar’s accomplice nabbed
FORT BRAGG – If you follow these pages, you may remember a story last week about Bret Counterman, a young man from Ukiah who was caught very early Monday morning, September 29, after parking his car in...
View ArticleSLO Grandma Scammed
A 76-year-old San Luis Obispo grandmother was scammed earlier this month. According to SLOPD, the SLO resident was a victim of what is called the “Grandparent Scam”. The victim said she received a call...
View ArticleMurder Suspect Knew Victim, Says San Bernardino Police
SAN BERNARDINO – A suspect in the murder of a 34-year-old man on Friday appeared in court on Monday, charged with a fatal stabbing. Damien Gnotta was discovered by police when they arrived shortly...
View ArticleSan Bernardino Police Shoot, Kill Combative Suspect
SAN BERNARDINO – San Bernardino Police shot and killed a combative suspect last week after receiving reports of a disturbance at a motel. Carl Blossomgame, 48, of Hesperia, attracted attention early...
View ArticleUnorthodox domestic violence case in the north coast
LITTLE RIVER, MENDOCINO COUNTY – October has been designated, not only Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but Domestic Violence Awareness Month as well. A recent case in coastal Mendocino County serves as...
View ArticleMurder Suspect Arrested in Temecula Shooting
TEMECULA – On Friday, a joint task force arrested two suspects regarding a two-week-old murder. On the morning of Monday September 22, Temecula Police Department dispatch received calls regarding...
View ArticleSwindler Gets Federal Prison Sentence For Bribing Travis AFB Official
A native of Afghanistan, 41, now a naturalized American citizen, was sentenced September 25 to two years in federal prison. Lida Amin had bribed an Air Force official in charge of procurement contracts...
View ArticleRedding PD reports recent injury DUIs
The Redding Police Department recently announced two DUI collisions that resulted in injuries, property damage, and had the potential for fatal injuries that thankfully did not happen. Three of the...
View ArticleRecent Roseville Area Drug Arrests
Tom Beaver (Facebook) Officers from the Roseville Police Department recently made some drug related arrests in the area, according to an official weekly crime report. On Tuesday, September 30 at 9:18...
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